French prosecutors on Tuesday requested two years of prison and a two-year suspended sentence for former President Nicolas Sarkozy in a landmark corruption and influence peddling trial in Paris, reports The Washington Post.
The 65-year-old Sarkozy is accused of having tried to illegally obtain information from a senior magistrate in 2014 about an investigation involving him.
Prosecutors requested the same sentence for Sarkozy’s codefendants — his lawyer and friend Thierry Herzog and magistrate Gilbert Azibert. All three denied wrongdoing.
Defense lawyers will speak on Wednesday and Thursday. The verdict is expected at a later date.
It’s the first time Sarkozy, president from 2007-2012, is facing trial, though the conservative politician is the target of multiple investigations.
Sarkozy and Herzog are suspected of promising Azibert a job in Monaco in exchange for leaking confidential information about an investigation into suspected illegal financing in the 2007 presidential campaign.